Wajir is as arid as it can get. You can see and feel the dryness of the area even before the plane touches the ground. The town has no lakes, rivers or streams. To put it bluntly, Wajir is dry.

Doctors’ reluctance to work in rural areas might be the reason why the government ... Mandera, Marsabit, Vihiga and Wajir are the four counties that have no single health specialist currently ...